Sidney Telegraph Editorial Page Note
The Sidney Telegraph is Western Nebraska’s oldest paper founded in 1873. It is an Associated Press associate member and Nebraska Press Association member. It serves Cheyenne County as the official newspaper and is published Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays from 830 11th Ave Sidney Nebraska.
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Splitting: Too Many Hairs About Sanity Of Killer
A 22 year old man with a history of prison reformatories killed a youth in Council Bluffs Iowa. The piece questions the value of insanity pleas and notes the victim’s death remains the same. It argues for accountability and criticizes repeated legal hair splitting over mental state.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
End to Fallout Prompts Nuclear Test Ban Support
Editorial argues banning atmospheric nuclear tests would end radiation fallout risk and protect the genetic pool. It notes scientific debate on health effects and urges caution until more is known, backing the three power treaty before the Senate for ratification.
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Senate
Traffic growth and highway plans forecast more driving
The piece notes car numbers have roughly doubled since World War II and traffic issues will rise. It cites a 47 billion dollar interstate system 40 percent done by 1975 to help, but expects motorist mileage to reach 50 billion miles annually by 1975. Future population growth will keep car numbers climbing.
Energy to Burn and the Mystery of Drive
The article notes wide variation in human energy and achievement. It cites a Midwestern story about a woman who designs and sews, builds furniture with power tools, makes 48 dozen earrings weekly for lumber money, and bakes bread while managing family duties, prompting questions about hidden secrets of high productivity.
End of Soil Bank Contracts Threatens Nebraska Farmers
As editors note, about 348 350 Nebraska acres face contract termination on December 91 this year with 143 494 more by December 31 1964 threatening loss of federal payments totaling roughly 6 million dollars yearly. Nationally 7 4 million acres face terminations this year and 3 5 million next year risking reversion to surplus crops and loss of gains from surplus reduction efforts.
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Nebraska
Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Congress
Benson
Pallbearers and the Playful Farewell to Life
The speaker muses on choosing pallbearers among friends and business partners. He lists Elmer Haines, a showman, a trusted doctor, a long time tycoon, and a rising young businessman as ideal successors to carry him at his funeral. He jokes about keeping life lively, delaying final plans, and valuing close companions over formalities.
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Mr. Haines
Haines
Cars and the American car culture in 1963
The piece notes 1963 model year output surpassing seven million units, compares car and human population figures, and discusses market saturation. It cites about 190 million people versus 67 million passenger cars with 15 million trucks and buses, and explains that roughly 12 million families own more than one car while another 12 million own none.
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United States
China and Russia split over how to spread ideology
The piece argues a growing rift between Moscow and Beijing over methods to impose communism. It notes Khrushchev’s peaceful coexistence stance versus Beijing’s demand for confrontation, with tensions rising after talks failed and concerns about a broader East Asian crisis.
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Moscow
South Korea
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Bibchiine
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Soviet Union
Expensive Errors in Relief Payments Questioned
A GAO survey found over half of Washington relief recipients were ineligible and relief rolls were cut. HEW’s national study shows about five dollars in every hundred paid to relief clients was illegal due to clerical errors, totaling 4.9 million in March.
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General Accounting Office
Washington, D. C
Health, Education and Welfare Department
HEW
Ellen Winston
GAO
Washington
Fragmentary Puzzle Menu Sparks Reader Guessing Game
An OCR fragment shows scattered words and numbers like Spider Jr Huntsman Weeds Wager and Protuberant. The piece resembles a puzzle page with clues and entries but lacks full sentences or coherent context.
Senators to Meet on Study Session for Possible Special Session
A group of Nebraska state senators led by Sen. Harold Stryker plans a meeting within a month to discuss topics for a potential special session. Stryker, Rising City, cites misallocated funds and legal issues in the current budget and bills as subjects to consider. The committee on installment sales legislation also delays asking Governor Morrison to summon quick action, awaiting attorney general guidance on constitutionality and related contracts.
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Lincoln
Harold Stryker
Stryker
Legislative Council
Morrison
Nebraska
Education Department
Capital Murals Commission
Michael’ Ruésillo
Omata
Clarente Meyer
Meyer
Behera
State Supreme Court
Nebraska considers urban planning unit in roads department
Deputy State Engineer G A Strobel says a new urban planning section within the state department of roads is under study. The unit would sit under the design division, a yearlong consideration aimed at helping Nebraska cities and towns with state highway work within their limits. The highway department currently spends about 60000 dollars monthly on urban highway construction and improvements.
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G. A. ‘Strobel
State Department of Roads
Highway Department
Employment Peak Reached in July Labor Report
The state labor department reports farm and nonfarm employment peaked in July. Total placements rose slightly from last year with government, transportation, manufacturing, and food sectors showing largest gains. The department notes 399 handicapped placements in July, up 4 percent from the previous year.
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State Labor Department
Murals Commission Faces $10,000 Debt Dilemma
The capitol murals commission cannot meet a $10,000 obligation to New York artist James Penney for three murals. The paintings will be stored until a solution is found, with Governor Morrison proposing a possible special legislative session as the issue is considered.
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Capitol Murals Commission
Morrison
New York
James Penney
Power review board assesses revenues and Tri State stance
The power review board reports 36499 dollars in assessment revenues for the year with 32025 dollars from public power districts and the rest from municipalities. Tri State Generation and Transmission Association Denver informed the board it believes Nebraska law creating the board does not apply to it as it does not operate electric facilities in Nebraska. REA managers in Nebraska will meet with the board on August 28 to discuss service area agreements.
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Nebraska
Columbus air service hearing set for September in Washington
Columbus officials and Frontier Airlines prepare for oral arguments before the Civil Aeronautics Board on air service to Columbus. James Sandstedt expects a solid proposal to unite the hearing, with Frontier President Lewis Dymond asked to consider adding Columbus to a new central route. The prior Columbus stop on Frontier’s central route was dropped in 1961 due to insufficient business to meet CAB standards.
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Columbus Air Service
James Sandstedt
State Aeronautics Department
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Washington
Air Service
Columbus
Frontier Airlines
Sandstedt
Frontier
Nebraska
Frortler
Gift plaque honors Churchill citizenship in Nebraska
Mrs. Morrison will present a solid walnut plaque shaped like the United States with Nebraska relief to Sir Winston Churchill. The copper inscription thanks him for citizenship in the United States and Nebraska, signed by the governor. Also offered are a Nebraska Navy admiralship and a 641 page supplement, Presenting Nebraska Where the West Begins.
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United States
Nebraska
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Neth
Omaha World-Herald
London
Nebraskaland
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